- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1997)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1990 to 1997)
- Wolfson College, Oxford (from 1988 to 1990)
- Mansfield College, Oxford (from 1984 to 1988)
- Philosophy
- Literature
- Psychoanalysis
- Driving with Plato (Profile Books, forthcoming 2011)
- Death-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2010)
- Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophy of Everyday Life (Profile Books, 2009)
- Derrida and Autobiography (CUP, 1995)
- Link to publications
- Founder editor, Angelaki (1993)
- Founder member, Forum for European Philosophy
- Vice-Master, Downing College and Head of Department (from 2007)
- Professor of Historical Geography and Demography (from 2003)
- University of Cambridge, Director, Cambridge Group for the History of Population Studies and Fellow, Downing College (from 1994)
- Reader in Historical Demography, Cambridge (from 1994 to 2003)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1994)
- Reader, History of Medicine and Director, Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, Oxford (from 1990 to 1994)
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1983 to 1994)
- University Lecturer in Historical Demography, University of Oxford (from 1983 to 1989)
- Tutor, Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (from 1979 to 1983)
- Assistant Lecturer in Historical Geography, University of Cambridge (from 1974 to 1983)
- Postgraduate, St Catharine’s College, Cambridge (from 1967 to 1974)
- Undergraduate, University College London (from 1964 to 1967)
- Medieval English peasant inheritance practices and their impact on property exchanges and social and kinship networks
- Problems of the use of manorial court rolls for the analysis of medieval marriage practices
- Historical demography
- The social history of medicine
- President, Economic History Society
- Co-editor, Economic History Review
- Co-editor of Cambridge Studies in Population, Economy and Society in Past Time
- Editorial board of Continuity and Change
- Editorial board of The History of the Family
- Geographical Tripos (Undergraduate Level—Historical Geography and Historical Demography)
- MPhil in Geographical Research
- MPhil in Economic and Social History
- PhD supervision in Historical Demography, Agrarian History and Historical Geography
- AHRC (2006–9) Private law and medieval village society: personal actions in manorial courts 1250–1350 £380,000.
- ESRC (2008–11 jointly with Dr M. Davies, University of London) Life in the Suburbs: Health, Domesticity and Status in Early Modern London £886,363.
- Fellow and Tutor in English, and Senior Tutor, Hertford College (from 1998)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1991 to 1998)
- Undergraduate, Somerville College, Oxford (from 1988 to 1991)
- Shakespeare’s reception in print, performance and criticism
- Early modern drama
- History of the Book
- Shakespeare and early modern literature to undergraduates and graduates
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001 to 2007)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1993 to 2000)
- Late Roman, Byzantine and early medieval socio-economic, cultural, and legal history
- Professor of Philosophy, New York University (from 2000 to 2004)
- Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, University of Oxford and Fellow, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 1989 to 2000)
- Susan Stebbing Professor of Philosophy, Kings College London (from 1985 to 1988)
- Fellow and Tutor, New College, Oxford (from 1979 to 1985)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1979)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1975 to 1979)
- Visiting Lecturer, University of California Berkeley (from 1975 to 1976)
- Junior Research Fellow, Queen’s College, Oxford (from 1973 to 1975)
- Senior Scholar, Merton College, Oxford (from 1972 to 1973)
- Kennedy Scholar, Harvard University (from 1971 to 1972)
- Undergraduate, Exeter College, Oxford (from 1968 to 1971)
- Truly Understood (New York: OUP, 2008)
- The Realm of Reason (New York: OUP, 2004)
- Being Known (New York: OUP, 1999)
- A Study of Concepts (MIT Press, 1992)
- Thoughts: An Essay on Content (B. Blackwell, 1986)
- Sense and Content: Experience, Thought, and their Relations (New York: OUP, 1983)
- Holistic Explanation: Action, Space, Interpretation (New York: OUP, 1979)
- Planning Director, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney (from 2006 to 2007)
- Director, Lowy Institute for International Policy, Sydney (from 2003)
- Deputy Chairman of Board, Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney (from 2003 to 2005)
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 2001)
- Chairman of the Council, Australian Strategic Policy Institute, Canberra (from 2000 to 2005)
- Chichele Professor of the History of War and Fellow, All Souls College; co-director All Souls Foreign Policy Studies Programme (from 1987 to 2001)
- Director, International Institute of Strategic Studies, London (from 1982 to 1987)
- Official Australian Historian for the Korean War (from 1969 to 1982)
- Senior Fellow, International Relations (till 1977), Professorial Fellow (from 1977); also (from 1971) Head, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University (from 1969 to 1982)
- Served in Australian Army; war service in Vietnam 1966-67, mentioned-in-dispatches (from 1955 to 1968)
- Undergraduate and Postgraduate, Brasenose College, Oxford, MA, D. Phil (from 1961 to 1965)
- Undergraduate, University of Melbourne, BE and Rhodes Scholar for Victoria (from 1959 to 1960)
- Royal Military College of Australia (from 1955 to 1958)
- International relations
- The history of war
- (ed. with John Baylis), Alternative Nuclear Futures (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
- (joint editor), War, Strategy and International Politics (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992).
- Australia in the Korean War 1950–53, 2 vols (Australian War Memorial, 1981 and 1985).
- General Giap – Politician and Strategist (New York: Praeger, 1969).
- Vietnam Task: The 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, 1966-67 (Melbourne: Cassell Australia, 1968).
- The German Army and the Nazi Party, 1933–1939 (Melbourne: Cassell, 1966).
- Foundation Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (2008)
- Chairman of Trustees, Imperial War Museum (from 1998 to 2001)
- Chairman, Council, IISS (from 1996 to 2001)
- Member, Rhodes Trust (from 1995 to 2001)
- Member, Canberra Commission on the Elimination of Nuclear Weapons (from 1995 to 1997)
- Governor, Salzburg Seminar (from 1992 to 1997)
- Trustee, Commonwealth War Graves Commission (from 1991 to 2001)
- Chairman, Management Committee, Sir Robert Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, University of London (from 1990 to 1995)
- Chairman of Board, Centre for Defence Studies, Kings College London (from 1990 to 1995)
- Governor, International Peace Academy (from 1990 to 2001)
- Trustee, Imperial War Museum (from 1990 to 1998)
- Governor, Ditchley Foundation (from 1989 to 2001)
- Armed Services Editor, The Australian Dictionary of Biography (from 1971 to 2001)
- Tutorial Fellow in Economics, Magdalen College, Oxford (from 2007)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2007)
- Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 2003 to 2007)
- Postgraduate, Nuffield College (from 1999 to 2003)
- Undergraduate, St John’s College, Oxford (from 1996 to 1999)
- “Skew-Symmetry under Simultaneous Revisions” (forthcoming), International Game Theory Review
- “Rapid Evolution under Inertia”, Games and Economic Behavior 66(2) 2009, 865-79
- “Dynamically Stable Sets in Infinite Strategy Spaces”, Games and Economic Behavior 62(2): 610–627 (2008)
- Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Economic Theory, Mathematical Economics, Industrial Organization (undergraduate)
- Microeconomics, Thesis Supervision (graduate)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 1998)
- Fifty Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1994 to 1998)
- Reader in Philosophy, University of Essex (from 1991 to 1998)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1986 to 1993)
- Postgraduate, University of Toronto (from 1983 to 1984)
- Undergraduate, Balliol College, Oxford (from 1980 to 1983)
- Wittgenstein
- Post-Kantian philosophy
- Post-Analytic philosophy
- Ethics
- Philosophy of religion
- Philosophy and literature
- Philosophy and film
- The Wounded Animal (Princeton, 2009)
- On Film (2nd edn, Routledge, 2008)
- The Conversation of Humanity (University of Virginia Press, 2007)
- Wittgenstein’s Private Language (OUP, 2006)
- Heidegger and Being and Time (2nd edn, Routledge, 2005)
- Philosophical Myths of the Fall (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)
- Consultant Psychiatrist and former Medical Director, Priory Hospital, Hayes Grove
- Emeritus Consultant Psychiatrist and former Clinical Director, Bethlehem Royal and Maudsley Hospital, London
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2004)
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2002 to 2004)
- Research Fellow, Neuro-imaging, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore (1992)
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1991)
- Prize Fellow, All Souls College (from 1975 to 1982)
- Scholar, New College, Oxford (from 1972 to 1975)
- Psychiatry (cerebral hemispheres and the relationship between neuropsychology, phenomenology and art)
- The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World (Yale University Press, 2009)
- Against Criticism (Faber and Faber, 1982)
- Emeritus Fellow, All Souls College (from 1987 to 2017)
- Honorary Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford and of Peterhouse, Cambridge
- Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College (from 1962 to 1987)
- Fellow and Tutor of Peterhouse and Lecturer, University of Cambridge (from 1947 to 1962)
- Cabinet Offices (from 1942 to 1946)
- La Storia Manipolata (Rome: Laterza, 1998).
- Modern Italy: A Political History (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1997).
- Mazzini (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1993).
- Italy and its Monarchy (New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 1989).
- (joint) A History of Sicily (London: Chatto & Windus, 1986).
- Cavour (New York: Knopf, 1985).
- Honorary Citizen, Santa Margherita Ligure (1999)
- Association for Study of Modern Italy (from 1987)
- Honorary Fellow, Peterhouse (from 1986)
- Public Orator, Repubblica di San Marino (1982)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1972)
- Sileno d’Oro (1996).
- Fregene (1990).
- Polifemo d’Argento (1988).
- Presidential Medal, Italy (1984).
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